Masters 2014: The Fit Club

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Manassero believes golf will definitely become a much more athletic gameSam Greenwood/Getty Images

Brian Oliver

Last updated at 12:01AM, April 10 2014

Despite the recent run of success by overweight players, the golfer of the future will be tall, lean and super-fit, according to trainers and players at the forefront of the boom in healthy golfers

Adam Scott

Seen as a role model for future generations. He spends an hour a day, five
days a week, in the gym. “I enjoy working out, being active,” the world No 2
from Australia says. His trainer, David Darbyshire, who has worked with
Scott, 33, for six years, says: “In the next ten years golf is definitely
going to become an athletic sport in which players such as Adam Scott [who
is 6ft] and Dustin Johnson [the 29-year-old, 6ft 4in big-hitting American]
will be the norm. The top players will be younger, typically they’ll be 6ft
2in athletes, and